“Medium,” CBS’ weakest, continues to nest at its all-time low. CBS will soon want to move it or lose it, I imagine.
“The Defenders” is falling hard, losing way too much of the “NCIS LA” audience. It is also now solidly CBS’ lowest-rated school-night series.
“Shit My Dad Says” still wins its timeslot, but loses a huge hunk of its “Big Bang” lead-in and, at the rate it’s falling, could be overtaken by “Bones” this week.
“Undercover Boss” is still big but hit a new personal low and even fell behind “Amazing Race” for the first time this week.
“Hawaii Five-0” is losing steam and could fall behind “Castle” if it doesn’t catch a bounce.
“CSI” hit another new low last Thursday.
“Blue Bloods” keeps losing ground and tied with “20/20” in 18-49 this weekend.
“CSI NY,” though way down from its Wednesday scores, was Friday’s top-rated show for the first time last week.

“Lie To Me” dipped below “Fringe,” and continues to lose the lion’s share of “House’s” audience.
“Raising Hope,” Fox’s top-rated new show, keeps losing more and more of “Glee’s” audience.
“Running Wilde” is collapsing in another enviable post-“Glee” timeslot.
“Good Guys” gave “Burn Notice” creator Matt Nix a bigger channel, a bigger budget and a bigger cast, but it’s an absolute disaster and I’m confused as to why Fox has not replaced it with “Glee” or “Bones” repeats.

“Whole Truth,” with expensive stars Maura Tierney and Rob Morrow, enjoyed a slight bounce last Wednesday, but still does not look long for this world.
“1-8-7” continues to perform even worse than now-cancelled “The Forgotten” did in the same slot this time last year.
“No Ordinary Family” is plummeting sharply, following the pattern established by early episodes of ABC sci-fi shows “V” (momentarily benched) and “FlashForward” (cancelled). “Ordinary” also launched much more weakly than “V” or “FlashForward,” so it’s coming close to cancellation range more quickly.

“Outlaw” was downgraded from production halt to outright cancellation over the weekend.
“Outsourced” continues its plummet. The third episode of “30 Rock” hit a 3.1 in that post-“Office” slot last fall.
“Outsourced” is not helping make less horrible the ratings for “The Apprentice.” With “Outlaw” gone, the Trumpfest is now NBC’s lowest-rated series. There’s talk of “Apprentice” swapping nights with one of the Wednesday L&O series.
“30 Rock” fell hard this week, hitting its worst number in a long, long time. (The worst, at least, since I started keeping track last fall.)
The good news for the falling “Undercovers” is “Chase” is falling even faster. “Chase” is now pulling “Jay Leno Show” numbers.
“Undercovers” is doing much worse than “Mercy.”
“Community” is getting hammered by “Big Bang” but it’s not far down from last season when it had to contend with “Survivor.”
“Chuck” continues to skirt its all-time lows, and is doing much worse than “Heroes” was in its slot last fall. But “Chuck” producers should be grateful for the disasters that are “Chase,” “Undercovers,” “The Apprentice” and “Outlaw.” The cancelled “Heroes’” fourth episode hit a 2.4 last fall. Could “Chuck” snag a back-nine order even if it dips to a 1.6?
Pricey “Parenthood” is also lucky NBC’s other hourlongs are doing so poorly this year. Even at 2.0, it still ranks fourth among the network’s nine hourlongs, behind only the two L&Os and “The Event.”
“The Event” continues to fall, but it is still NBC’s top hourlong without “Law & Order” in its title and easily the highest-rated of the network’s Monday shows. And “Event” is still doing much better than “Trauma” did in that slot last year.
“Law & Order LA” fell hard but still dominated its timeslot against legal competition “The Defenders” and “Whole Truth,” AND it’s NBC’s second-biggest hourlong after “SVU,” so it doesn’t look likely to go anywhere.

I could see all of those cancelled before Christmas.
Highly doubt Chuck would dip. The audience is the audience; and they keep showing up without being bombarded with Advertising. 1.8-2.2, for the rest of the season.

...what have they got that will do better, in sufficient amounts, to replace them? There's only so many repeats and reality shows you can toss on the air. Probably 3-4 shows will crash and burn, and the rest will plod along to the rest of the season, and a couple will get second season renewals for no visible reason (see "Better off Ted" last year).

It's time to do away with it especially when the technology exists already for most of the viewing audiences Fios, Direct TV and Cable boxes to accurately track live viewership as well as DVR. Combine those numbers with Hulu and the streams from the Networks websites and there you go.

Especially with Internet capable TVs coming out and cheap little boxes like Apple TV and Google TV that let you stream content to your old fashioned TV just released. The tried and true network business model is on life support. The prognosis is not good.

hey herc...how much does the event cost to produce?<p>and dont they have to promise advertisers a certain amount of audience or they have to give away time on other shows?<P>there are 8 shows in the can...no word on them making any more<P>the show goes on hiatus in november, never to be heard from again<P>what is interesting is that numbers are down across the board...where are all the people going...hopefully back to reading books and spending quality time with their kids

Parenthood and Community are both in the red zone already and continue to drop. The Event and NOF are safe for now and will likely make a full season, but if they continue dropping week to week they will be in the red before hiatus. Chuck is hard to say, everyone thought it was done last year, but it just keeps squeezing by. 187 is a goner, Undercovers & Chase are gone, Fringe is probably done this year as much as I hate to say that. Strangely enough, I believe The Office is in trouble for next season. Their ratings have dropped a full point just over 2 weeks and Steve Carrell hasn't departed it yet.

I don't get it, but CBS has some loyal fucking viewers. I don't watch any of their shows except the occasional episode of HIMYM, but all their shows stay stable in ratings or only see small drops. Whatever is in their kool-aid, it's working on their loyal viewers who enjoy their bland shows.

I think Community is safe. Granted...putting it up against BBT isn't doing it any favors, but after they got picked up for season 1 they signed all the actors to a fairly cheap four-season contract.
Add to that the fact that the show's budget is very small, it's iTunes & Hulu rankings are high, and the season 1 DVD is selling very well...and I think it's okay for a while.

I get the feeling I'm the only person on the planet who really likes "The Good Guys". Its worth it for Brad Whitford's performance alone. Reputed to be made in-house and on a comparatively small budget per episode (and thus potentially more profitable), I doubt it'll be the easy write off that you would expect of such a low Nielsen rater.

This season's schedule is dogshit. There's almost nothing on network to watch Monday or Wednesday at 10pm except Castle on Monday. The Rape Show (aka Law & Order SVU) is back to a stupid 9pm timeslot, L&O LA is mediocre, The Defenders isn't even the fun its stupid casting and ads promised, Hawaii 5-O is brainless and bland, Chase is... who gives a fuck, The Whole Truth feels like too much of a latecomer in the legal show party, and that's just 2 timeslots in a whole week! There are almost no new shows worth watching, and Fox can't market its new shows whether or not they're worth marketing, and CBS has no flow, and NBC is still NBC, and ABC seems to be rolling cheap.

Most of the fellow Chuck-watchers I know time-delay it either by Tivo, On-Demand, or web streaming. Since Comcast always has Chuck and The Event ready to go On-Demand, I know I can miss them during broadcast. (It's not like I matter to the ratings anyway, right?)

was not on last night. TiVO thought it was, but turned out to be that smarmy bitch Diane Sawyer, with a 20/20 special. Guess I'll go see if it is on Hulu. Rob Morrow can make any show entertaining. I can't believe he carried Numbers for FIVE FREAKING SEASONS. He is a machine, and I don't know his secret, but he looks the exact same as he did as Joel Fleischman 20ish years ago.

I too think The Good Guys is funny. This is about the third time I've posted the following re. The Good Guys: I still can't believe people, especially AICN people, have ignored the fact that Danny Trejo was a guest on last week's episode:
and no one's talking about it: a good, funny episode on friday featuring Danny Trejo ("Machete") ... Danny Trejo, for God's sake, giving a funny piss-taking performance .... and there wasn't one mention that he was in it in any of the ads that I saw. What the hell! You've got this B-Movie cult icon guesting on your quirky comedy cop show and you don't bother to mention it .... say what you want about "Chuck", but those guys have milked the name/face recognition of their guest stars for all it's worth. i haven't been to the official Good Guys website (is there one?) but it seems to be a show tailor-made for some out of the box marketing (the 'stache, the car, the cheesy 80s cop-show vibe); hell, why don't they make the "Savage and Stark" TV movie and put snippets of it on You Tube?? Wouldn't that be the obvious thing?

I still wonder what would happen if a major network took a look at a show and said, "We're going to commit right now to showing this thing for three years. The budget is going to be adjusted based on ratings, but you're guaranteed at least 66 episodes over a three year span."
If people KNOW that the show is going to be there for them and has no risk of cancellation, the audience might be willing to give it more of a chance.

Good Guys, Terriers, and Running Wilde (did no one watch this week? How could you not be cracking up with Wilde's idea of a car wash?); three quality shows that aren't getting anywhere near the amount of love try should be getting. Of the three Good Guys is the weakest, and frustratingly falls back on to some formulaic cliches almost every episode, BUT, its still fun and the two leads work great together (and that blonde is ridiculously hot!).

Not sure if this has been discussed, but unlike most shows, CBS actually owns the rights to Medium, it was a rare CBS-produced show that was on NBC first. CBS took it over because of the increased revenues they make from syndication and DVDs down the line. So even thought it's struggling ratings wise, there is more going on as far as the economics of the show goes. Plus, Even at 1.2 ratings it still contends in that dreadful "kiss of death" timeslot.

My assessment is that it isn't the actors at all (the casting for the series is excellent, by the way), or that there's a problem with its overall concept. The scriptwriting is so-so and in several episodes the "zany" and "quirky" elements have been a bit too corny (especially bad guys talking in atrocious accents -- the worst had to have been the Boston bookie), which may have turned off viewers. But even I don't think this (the writing) is the source of the problem -- I think this reveals a bigger problem.<p><p>The problem is this: I get the general impression now that there is not much enthusiasm for the project by FOX (except for Kevin Reilly cheerleading), Matt Nix, and even by Hanks and Whitford. I'm not sure why this is the case, but none of these people really seem to be "into" it, making this series.<p><p>How could this possibly be the case? This is just a guess: the entire series concept seems like something that was thrown together by FOX to spend several already agreed-upon contracts at once. My guess is that the network had Whitford, Hanks and Nix each signed to individual talent-holding agreements. And rather than allow these three agreements expire, they threw all three together and ordered them to do a cop show. Seriously.<p><p>This would explain a lot, frankly. Why FOX has apparently stuck with this series, despite its terrible, and still steadily declining ratings, and paying the production in Dallas to crank out 20 episodes. Because it all feels like "satisfying expensive contract fulfillment clauses".<p><p>Oh, and as for the Dallas setting: they're only shooting in that city due to huge tax breaks that the city has given Fox Television (the production arm), and also the fact that it is one of the top ten TV viewer ratings cities in the U.S.. Atlanta, which has a similar sized ratings audience, was also considered, but that city didn't cough up enough tax freebies. So that's why the series is set in Dallas (and why the setting of its episodes feel generic, compared with "Chase" which is set in south Texas and constantly likes to remind viewers of this).<p><p>I know some colleagues in Dallas, and I don't think they want to consider this: But I wonder if they even want to be in Dallas at all.

..all tingly with excitement as apparently you will decide, based on incomplete and spurious data to say the least, what will be the next series to be canceled? The truth is, money decides, and if a series is being consistent in it's ratings points, it will stay. There is far too much evidence to prove this, if you have the time and inclination. And, to be even more rational, not all decisions are made on that precious 18-49 demo you are so in love with.

Undercover boss is losing steam because its never on when they say its on. cbs and all the guids say its on at 9pm but its never on till like 9:45 by then people will turn to something else. You cant even dvr it because its never on at the same time.

So the show's creator and its two stars don't even want to be doing this show at all and never did? Wow. That's a crazy theory, but I could see it making a lot of sense. If the three were signed to talent holding deals with FOX which were about to expire, and the network was going to pay a huge penalty, then it would make more sense to quickly produce one show (instead of three shows) throwing the three men together. Now that I think about all the episodes (I've watched every one so far), the casting of the guest stars has been excellent, and the guest actors have done great jobs, despite being saddled with lousy characters. Hanks has always come across as a bit too uptight in the role -- I figured it was the Texas heat. Whitford comes off as if he's staggering lazily through some ways, and then bursting out -- I figured he was just playing character, but his performance has had an uneven, unfocused vibe to it. This theory also explains the show's scriptwriting and charaterizations -- some of the episodes come off as though the writer is daring you to like the episode. Maybe if FOX decides to torment them with another season, things will go into a surreal, self-hating bent even further, like what happened on that FOX sitcom that aired on Sundays for a few seasons that nobody watched (and which I cannot remember the title of).